Japan’s Twitter Killer Sleeps With 9 SEVERED HEADS In His Tiny Tokyo Apartment

[Music] bada bing bada boom takahiro woke up and his head is pounding he can feel it in his ears he slouched over the bathtub his head is resting on his arm and he's thinking maybe I drank too much last night that would explain why he's in the restroom but then there's this unpleasant smell I mean he's a 27-year-old Bachelor maybe he left some food out maybe he forgot to flush the Toilet that wouldn't be the first time but all he remembers is that he got home really late last night he ate ate something that upset

his stomach a little bit some spaghetti and steamed chicken that probably went bad and the next thing he knew he's knocked out and when takahira falls asleep he sleeps hard it's like an explosion could occur and he wouldn't even wake up complete black out he doesn't even remember when he fell asleep but he had been woken up By the smell in Tokyo the apartments are tiny so any small thing can stench up the entire place his apartment was only 150 square F feet so it's like New York City tiny boxes probably a little smaller and

this was not the smell of vomit that he's sniffing I mean which would make more sense probably it was so much worse than vomit and it was everywhere it's like rotting meat that's mixed with rotting bananas he's focusing his eyes on what's in front of him in The bathtub floating in a pool of cold reddish water are body pieces that have been cut up there is a head with long tangled hair that's completely severed off and is laying there in a bucket of kitty litter the arms are cut off from the body the hands are

cut off from the arms blood is spilling out of the bathtub onto the walls onto the tiled floors it's seeping into the grout blood organs they're all sectioned off into different groups like Someone was prepping a dinner they prep different ingredients they're sectioned off and they're just kind of floating in different sections of the bathtub if takahiro wasn't awake earlier he definitely was awake now there was no way that he could just leave this sitting in his bathroom the neighbors are going to get suspicious they're going to smell the smell is eye watering he starts

panicking hyperventilating from the scent takahiro goes into fight ORF flight mode I mean he has no doubt that if he calls the police he's going to be suspect number one because there's dismembered body parts in his own apartment bathroom who else is going to be the suspect how is he going to explain this away and he absolutely abely could not report this he was already on probation one little mess up and he would be thrown in prison for a very very long time his eyes are watering and takahiro desperately just Like wants to go back

to sleep but instead he grabs his rain jacket puts on a mask snaps on a pair of goggles how is he going to dispose of his little friend or the eight other severed heads in his living [Music] room [Music] we would like to thank today's sponsors who have made it possible for rotten mango to support the Jed Foundation Jed Is a nonprofit that exists to protect the emotional health of our nation's teens and young adults they partner with high schools and colleges to strengthen their mental health substance abuse and prevention programs and systems this episode

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the population as well as necro so if that is something that you are not comfortable listening to or perhaps you're not in the right heads space for go make your favorite meal settle down with your favorite comfort movie and we can see you in the next one Mr Ono is a very accomplished author and he's sitting across from taka hero taka hero is rolling his head from side to Side and he always keeps his eyes closed that's what he notices is Mr Ono do you play shogi Japanese chess which focuses heavily on strategy do you

know how to play Mr Ono I do but I don't play often do you play Mr takahiro I've been studying shogi but I can't play against anyone so I write on a piece of paper and I play shogi by myself I discovered that there's techniques that you can't master even Though you understand them by the way Mr Ono I read your book the logic of murder you know you're you're really skilled at creating a narrative I've been trying to finish your other book serial killers I've been reading it all the time sometimes my hands feel

heavy when I have to read it but I pushed through and I flipped the pages I thought it would be impolite to not finish the book so I kept turning Mr Ono was not here to talk about his own books he was here to talk About takahiro and the past two months of takahiro's life so he grabs his pen and paper and he asks takah hero was it an unforgettable experience he closes his eyes again and rolls his head and he waits or rather he makes Mr Ono wait I remember it well Looking Back Now

I can say one thing the smell of all nine people when you open them up it's so interesting they all smell different from one another there are a few games in this World that you should just never play the price you have to pay to play is just way too high have you ever heard of the Blackout Challenge the Blackout Challenge is I wouldn't call it a game but some people do it's a game that a lot of kids often play where one person in some way or another restricts another person's breathing for just enough

time where they pass out for a few minutes but that's really hard to gauge and it sounds crazy but it's very similar to Kids sucking helium out of balloons for the same effect they say it gives him a state of euphoria which it doesn't and on top of that it gives anyone who's watching that person passed out it gives them A Rush of adrenaline what are they going to experience when they black out how is it going to feel for that person how long are they going to be knocked out for so for some people

they never make their way back more recently 15 children have died from playing the Blackout Challenge and all of them were younger than 12 years old that's what I'm saying like yeah how is this normalized takahiro used to play the Blackout Challenge when he was 12 years old to him it was just a fun little game that he and his friends would indulge in and when they would come back from blacking out they would tell each other what it was like what they saw what they remembered everything and sometimes they would even have these mild

symptoms or Side effects while playing the game they're temporary they're shortterm but it's scary difficulty swallowing speaking breathing some of them have even noticed small red or purple dots on their face or the whites of their eyes would go blood red from the blood vessels bursting in their eyeballs and that's just what you can see even if you play the game once and you survive it as a kid that doesn't necessarily barely mean that you've escaped its effects I Mean since your brain is no longer receiving oxygen you may experience memory loss so what if

one innocent game of blackout changes your entire brain chemistry it does something to your brain what if it scars you for the rest of your life 30 forensic experts were crammed into a tiny 150t apartment in Tokyo their back to back rubbing shoulders everything has to be done carefully and meticulously I mean they had never seen anything like this before Check the box over there one of the forensic Specialists walks over opens the lid of a storage box next to the couch it's filled with cat litter they start using their brush to scrape away some

of the cat litter and a few inches down I found one they see a forehead they brush away more cat litter a severed head is staring up at them this was the ninth one the experts went through all the boxes stacked neatly on just one side of this lofted studio Apartment and each time they opened a box they found more evidence the evidence was logged and listed as box one two heads discolored pale green with protruding eyeballs both eyes open and eyes are cloudy box two two heads one leathery and slightly Brown on some parts

and greenish yellow on other parts the other head reddish brown with closed eyelids box three six human bones and eight pieces of meat that appear to be internal organs box four 31 human bones One head has dried and turned brown eyes could not be identif ified box five 77 pieces of human remains box six 32 pieces of human remains three heads of which one has tape on the lip area box seven human bones one head brown in color in the process of quote drying covered with adhesive tape the bones were stacked into the boxes neatly

like a game of Tetris to maximize space and in total the police found nine severed heads in a 27-year-old's Tokyo Apartment did you test the blender yes positive for blood 2 months before this Allison was given very clear instructions and she was all in It's the middle of summer in 2017 and to her this was going to be a very pivotal moment she's got everything that she needs or rather she's got everything that she needs to get rid of she is about to make an irreversible life-changing moment and she's feeling doy doy so that term

means extremely nervous but it has two Connotations you can use it in a Nega way like when you get called into the principal's office and you feel kind of nervous cuz you're like I don't know what's going to happen or you can use it in a positive light because you're waiting for your crush to text you back Allison is feeling both of those things she's feeling doy doy in every way she put in her notice at work she worked at an office job that she really didn't care much for so she just sent in an

Email today's going to be my last day once that was done she shuts her laptop pulls out a blank sheet of paper and writes a note for her family this was probably the hardest part but the the instructions were very clear this step was so important she was supposed to tell her family do not by any means come looking for me because I don't want to be found Allison's hand is shaking as she's writing it and she's holding back the tears trying not to get emotional She decides maybe the shorter the better I want to

live alone so I'm running away from home she sits there holding back her tears staring at the words on her paper I mean at least part of it is true she folds up the note and leaves it on her desk this is where her mom is going to find it and she keeps talking herself into it this is the thing that makes the most sense this is what I need to do right what I was told to do and now it's almost complete she's walking around Sunny afternoon in Tokyo waiting for the next instruction she's

scrolling on her phone passing the time with all these funny cute little animal videos and she's checking her friend's group chat and she catches herself smiling at the group chat until she realizes I will never be able to respond to them ever again and for a second she questioned s am I really doing this right now if I do this there's no turning back am I a th% sure that this is what I want no yeah of Course it is and plus she's not alone the person giving her all these instructions has done this so

many times in the past and they know what they're doing and Allison gives him her full trust she gets another message on her phone meet me at the train station before you do throw your phone into the ocean the ocean she's already near the train station she's not going to leave and go to the ocean throw her phone away I mean it's an expensive phone that's That's kind of extreme so she walks into the train station looks around spots a restroom and she's thinking I'm just going to hide my phone in here she pushes in

the door and she's staring at herself in the mirror and she's thinking yeah this makes sense the ocean's too permanent if I leave my phone in here at least it's convenient as a backup plan if I have to come back and get it Allison HIIT her phone in one of the Stalls just in case eventually somebody Would come come back for that phone it just would not be Allison takahiro wakes up in the restroom with the body in the tub he had fallen asleep and his muscles are aching and he just feels purely exhausted his

mind is clearing up and all the memories of last night are just coming flooding back he runs out of the bathroom he sees a purse laying on the ground he snatches it up and in it is an ID Allison 21 years old he remembered I mean of course He did how could he forget he killed Alison and he remembered every last joyous second of it all of it he had contemplated for five whole days on whether or not he wanted to kill Allison ultimately he didn't want to but it was necessary takah hero was on

Twitter with the sole purpose of finding someone that he could scam out of money he thought about the typical ways to scam pretend to have some sort of business that someone can invest in another Opportunity but all of that seemed like so much work you had to forge papers you had to create like a company logo So the plan was you know what I'm just going to find a vulnerable population of women scam them out of their money by pretending to be interested in them pretending to be their boyfriend takah hero went online specifically looking

for girls with Twitter accounts where they expressed very deep negative emotions dark thoughts about wanting to Exit he meets Allison and he starts messaging her on Twitter and he pretends to be this great listening ear that just I just want to help you I I feel like I can relate to your feelings I I went through the same things as you but in reality he thought this was his ticket out get her to believe that he was interested in her then ask her for her money I mean he just had this Obsession of wanting to

move into his own place he was so sick of living with his parents He wanted his own studio apartment with a loft it had to have a loft after bonding with Allison and telling her everything that she wants to hear he starts telling her about his life dreams I want a room with a loft even if it's small I think it'll be good ooh then you'd have to work really hard from now on but you know I heard Lofts get really hot in the summer and it's surprisingly inconvenient I heard to have a loft because

you got to go up and down no I Want a loft I want to put my stuff in the Loft takahiro absolutely had to have a loft apparently but he was unemployed with no income and no savings and that's where Allison comes in he convinces her to let him borrow $4,500 which he would use as proof of funds to get the apartment lease for his Loft Studio which side note the Loft that he got wasn't even that luxurious he didn't want to Loft because it made him feel like he's living the life the Place was

actually quite small 150 s ft you walk in on the left is the door to the bathroom you walk a few steps further that's the studio you're in the main room it's like a studio apartment unit there's a tiny little I don't even know if I can call it a kitchen it's more like a kitchenette it's a tiny sink maybe the size of a bathroom sink a mini fridge and a singular stove top that's it then next to the kitchen is the ladder up the loft which does make the Place feel a little bit bigger

but it's still really small but to him this Loft was perfect Room 205 was going to be his are you sure you don't want to just wait a few more weeks the realtor is staring at takahiro like he's lost his freaking mind are you sure you're understanding what I'm telling you right now we've got a one-month free rent promotion going on you would get the most bang for your buck if you waited until the beginning of the next month to sign the contract Because if you move in now you only get a week off of

rent instead of the entire month mon off so just wait 3 weeks and then you could have a full month of free rent like I said no thank you I want the room now even if I don't get any discount the realtor looked at him like he's kind of crazy but okay he lets him sign the papers and gives him the keys now takahiro is standing in the main living area staring up at The Loft that's 6 and 1/2 ft above staring at the Railing it was perfect Allison was going to die here I mean

that wasn't the original plan the original plan was to keep Allison around so that she could Finance his whole life his original plan was and I quote I wanted to get as much as I could get I wanted it all her money that is but he felt like he had no choice now Allison was starting to pull away from him and he could he had this suspicion that she was seeing a new boyfriend which that Only means one thing if Allison has a new boyfriend she's going to want her money back and she's going to

ask takahiro to pay her back the $4,500 and he can't he said I thought about how I could avoid paying her back and I decided I just had to kill her takahiro would commit his first murder over $4,500 once he was set on his plan he started searching online how to kill how to dismember a human how to dismember a cow how to dispose of a body how to Destroy the evidence takahiro went out and he bought a saw he invited Allison over to visit his new apartment that she paid for and side note takahiro

was searching online how to dismember a body while he was waiting for Allison to arrive he hears a knock on the door he quickly exits out of the browser on his phone come in come in she walks in she's looking around I mean it's a small space but it's kind of cozy she's looking around no it's really Nice very nice takahiro nods and is like sit sit she's sits down on the main room couch so this is the first floor not in the Loft and he pours her a glass of alcohol mid conversation he just

gets up she has no idea what's going on he just gets up midc conversation walks to the front door of the apartment locks it chain locks it immediately u-turns takes like five big steps towards Allison and just starts groping her chest out of nowhere takahiro said he always wanted To surprise a attack like this but when she resisted his advances that's just when something came over him he liked that she was resisting so he fully attacked her he pushed her down completely wrapped his hands around her neck and started choking her Allison was fighting back

hard it took Taka a hero five long minutes before Allison lost Consciousness he essayed her unconscious body and he said I originally did it because I haven't been Active in a while but he said he ended up surprisingly really loving it to the point where the idea of regular consensual relations was never going to do it for him again he then proceeded to tie her arms and legs together with long cords that he prepared he wrapped a rope around Allison and then the other end he he had in his hand as he went up the

ladder wrapped it around the railing and started playing tug of war he climbed up and he pulled until Allison was in a Standing position and eventually a floating position she was still alive at this point but with that action her her airf flow was gradually being cut off takahiro when he secured the Rope he ran down to the main floor and he just watched From Below he he saw her convulse then she urinated on herself which typically lacked of oxygen to the brain makes it unable to control the muscles that are normally holding in the

Urine and he sat there for 30 minutes until her body became cold to the touch he sat and watched all 30 minutes of it it was like a mini performance in his own apartment he said for those 30 minutes just watching I have to admit my heart was beating very fast even though I wasn't even exercising and he had this brief moment when he realized oh she's dead he thought oh my gosh I've done something very bad but it quickly turned into how Do I not get caught so he took her body down moved her

into the bathroom to quote dismantle her because he knew it wouldn't be good to wait any longer he read online articles that bodies decompose faster than you would think so he wanted to get to work immediately he felt like it was only natural to quote cut off her head and drained the blood so he put her on her back stared at her face as he got to work and he got really descriptive with it but he said um the Process of that he said you know when you shake a coke bottle and you open it

and it comes gushing out mhm that's how the blood came out of the neck like you turn on a faucet upward and let the water just come up at that moment the side of that is making takahiro dizzy he's starting to get this raging migraine but he's like I got to continue he said quote the image the smell just wow still I knew I had to do it or else I would get caught he parted The head from the neck and started draining the blood he stated he cut off the shoulders then he severed the

wrist and the hands from the rest of the arm he parted the rest of the arm and half at the elbows he filled the tub with water and added fresh bath salt and quote left all the body parts floating in there he was about to start on the legs but he said that he reached his limit mentally and he knocked out and he describes it as quote sleeping like a Log he woke up in front of Allison's dead body and even now staring at the floating corpse in the bathtub he thought all of it was

worth it when he wakes up he immediately starts working on the lower half of her body and he said he kept thinking to himself motivating himself to keep going I just have to do this today I just have to do this today he finished up dismembering the lower half and started to quote cut the skin and remove the meat from the Bones he placed all the meat organs and smaller bones into pee PE pads like the ones that you would get for your pet he wrapped them up shoved them into a Ziploc bag then he

got the Ziploc bag wrapped that in newspaper and then threw them away in a black trash bag in his apartment building's trash can that was the method he used but that's just for the organs and a lot of the big chunks of Flesh and that worked for him wow most of the bigger Bones of the body were left over including the head he wasn't entirely sure what to do with those parts yet but the main problem that takahiro had at this point he said was the smell it was getting worse by the hour first he

did some research on his phone about odor elimination and he looks up just quote rotting smell and he ends up getting a ton of results for Bleach cat litter so he starts trying them all takahiro even tries to buy this sterilizer that's Typically known to sterilize kitchen utensils and cutting boards it's I I believe it's restaurant grade and the sight of dismembering a body living with a corpse none of that was as annoying as the smell he said but the smell was just so strong I mean it was overpowering it wouldn't leave taker hero said

the smell was actually the worst from the internal organs that when you cut open the stomach that's when the smell is the strongest and it comes out immediately And he stated each one of his victims smelled differently he said he's never smelled anything like that in his entire life with Allison it took him 2 days to quote dismantle her body he said he had to take a lot of breaks to just get away from the smell and then come back to it he said it was such an overwhelming scent but even that it didn't compare

to the fear of getting caught so he kept going he purchased a single-sided saw two kitchen knives a knife sharpener a Pair of scissors he used the scissors to cut the skin and he said I didn't know this until I did it myself but he human skin is unexpectedly hard it's thick difficult to cut at first I tried to use a knife but it didn't work it was easier to use scissors I looked up the dismantling method on the internet and I did what I researched and I did it in the bathtub so these are

all from him telling this to who Mr Ono the author and some of it he told the judge during His trial later it's like so detached No Remorse no this is just the beginning just you wait he said I scraped the meat off the bones I boiled the bones in a pot and then I added some kimchi Hot Pot stock I thought I would deodorize it you know sometimes he cooked a Japanese Curry into it to mass the smell some more or other times it was a Chinese stew he would later state that it was

just to help mask the smell but takahiro's phone would show results for Precautions when eating human flesh question mark oh my goodness after boiling the bones to be able to strip them of the flesh he added the bones to kitty litter and then played Tetris with them he would buy these boxes he talked in depth about how he was focused on limiting the amount of boxes in his apartment building so he wanted to Tetris the bones so it could be a smaller box for all of Allison's bones so he's doing all of that for his

first Victim yes he's like cooking and doing all of that first time first time wow for $4,500 yeah but I don't think 4,500 has anything to do with it right like come on if I asked you to tell me your favorite day of the week I assume that most of you guys would not say Monday and I think that's because Mondays just don't feel great especially if you are trying to recover from a weekend of late nights And social events it is hard to make up for lost sleep in a single day but there is

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bones are once the meat And flat are removed he stated there very very light but since the meat and fat have nowhere to go he would again grab some PP pads wrap them in newspaper and then throw them away in the downstairs apartment building dumpster and once he's through with Allison's two-day dismemberment process he just had one big question I mean is he going to keep the box of Bones is he going to keep the severed head in his tiny little laugh forever he starts Googling how to Dump bodies but he realized that the highest

risk of bodies being discovered he's studying all these other killers and it's usually when killers are on their way to dump the body that they get caught or they're actively digging a hole with the shovel and the show up I mean how is he going to talk his way out of why he needs a human sized hole in the ground but takahiro's biggest tear was he's very nervous that a dog would come sniffing in the mountains and dig Up the buried body that he worked so hard to bury the best choice to get the body

out of his apartment he decided was to rent a storage unit and keep the body there but he never got around to it because there were things higher on his priority list like Allison's best friend Charlie when Taka hero asked Allison to finally meet up with him in person before he bought the Loft before Allison ever gave him any money they were just Twitter friends Allison was really Hesitant I mean they're hitting it off yeah they're bonding he seems nice he seems relatable they seem to have shared life experiences but at the end of the

day this is a complete stranger so she brings her best friend Charlie and he's there to make sure nothing's going to happen to Allison he's going to get a good gauge on takahiro as a person Charlie was incredibly protective over Allison Charlie too was struggling with a lot of dark emotions and Allison to Him was almost this symbol of Hope even though she was experiencing it Allison was always the giver that's her love language she would give gifts she would give her time her energy if she didn't have the money she would give money she

would give everything she would give so much of herself to the point that she would have nothing left for her own individual same with love she always gave out love never saved any for herself which is why Allison was Struggling a lot with mental health and it didn't help that she was bullyed Le a lot growing up and she just had all this lingering trauma and emotions and insecurities and Charlie was there to make sure that taka hero was not going to take advantage of Allison so all three of them they meet up at a

park they actually get along very well Charlie felt comfortable with Allison being friends with takahiro takahiro was just he seemed I wouldn't say Charismatic but it's almost you know when you meet someone and you have so many things in common with them you're like how did we not not know each other before this we're like twins like how do we have the same life experiences to the dot it's kind of crazy I'm like looking into a mirror right now but that's not true though right no takahiro would mirror every single one of his victims oh

wow he would just relate to every single thing he said and fake stories That were the basic principles of what they are talking about just in a different way but now Charlie's Best Friend Allison has not been picking up her phone and Charlie has been worried sick Allison's mom is blowing up his phone and he gets a text message from takahiro and then another and then another text message and takahiro is randomly just like convincing him that things are never going to get better especially because Allison is missing And Charlie is getting influence he started

having negative thoughts again and he had always struggled with them before but it was only getting worse now and takahiro texted him do you want to hang out meet me at the train station but throw your phone in the ocean first just like Allison Charlie wanted to find comfort in takah hero but he also wanted a backup plan so he tweeted this was his very last tweet for a brief moment in this life I experienced something happy Then he threw his phone in a train station locker before heading out to meet takahiro at his loft

apartment and just like Allison his phone would be found in the train station just not by Charlie the speakers in takah Hero's apartment were playing a new Nirvana song but takahiro was barely listening to the lyrics it goes I Am My Own Worst parasite but takahiro is busy his arms are straining as he's trying to drag this heavy lump across the floor a lot Heavier than anything that he's ever moved across this apartment before takahiro grabs the rope from underneath his kitchen cabinet makes a loop with one end of the Rope goes back to the

body and he's thinking a woman is a lot easier to move than a man and his muscles are telling him like don't do it don't do it it's so painful takahiro grabs the other end of the rope and climbs up the ladder and he's now standing over the railing Of his Loft pulling as hard as he can playing tug ofwar he's trying to lift Charlie up into a standing position his arms feel like they're about to pop off and it doesn't help once he feels Charlie starting to struggle on the other end of the Rope

he's awake once Charlie is at least standing he hooks the Rope to the railing and takahira climbs back down the ladder and is staring excitedly Charlie has duct tape over his Mouth and nose and he's is flinging his body around and he's floating in the apartment trying to break free his arms are tied together and even though this wasn't his typical Choice takahiro was enjoying it it would take a full 30 minutes for him to become cold to the touch once he is takahiro checks Charlie's Pockets pulling out the little cash that he had and

Pockets it he also checks to see that Charlie has no phone good perfect it's probably in the ocean Now there's going to be no way for anyone to connect hero to him or takah hero to Allison after all of this takah hero was starving so with Charlie now in the bathroom waiting for the dismantling ritual if you will takah hero sat down with a bowl of spaghetti and steamed chicken from the convenience store and eventually he would pass out sleeping like a baby honestly he was quite proud of himself people would assume that Allison either

joined a brothel or if They knew both Allison and Charlie and they're both missing they might even start suspecting that Charlie did something to Allison it it was genius a week and a half later takahiro bent over another body in his bathtub not Charlie but a woman named Diane when he hears a knock on the door he freezes he quickly backs up from the bathtub inches closer to the door he holds his breath as he looks through the people oh thank God it's just Katie Katie is a woman that he's been seeing for the past

week I mean I guess you could say that they're dating very casually Katie had slept over the past four nights at takahiro's house and they were briefly intimate it was a little awkward because takahiro could not um make it to the finish line and was not really enjoying it so they just both enjoyed each other's company instead of that and she thought it was going well but out of nowhere takahiro is pushing Katie out the door talking about how he needs to help some girl named Diane from Twitter because she's struggling with negative thoughts which

I mean Katy's like I guess it's fine because I'm going to go home check on my mom anyway and I mean I guess it's nice that he's a considerate person right trying to help out his friends but he calls her later and is like you can come back over and now she's stepping in through his apartment door to his Loft and it's so Interesting how our bodies get used to things the way our eyes get used to the dark and the way our noses block out sense that we're always lingering well when Katie walks back

in she's hit with the smell she's like has it always smelled this Pon in here like what is this smell takahiro apologizes for keeping her waiting hurries her inside she steps in takes off her shoes follows him in sorry just let me quickly freshen up no Don't go to the bathroom you cannot go into the bathroom Tako hero looks like he's ready to jump in front of the bathroom door to fight her if she tries to open the door and it's so strange she's looking at him like hello what are you talking about and he

closes his eyes I might have helped the person from Twitter self- exit and they and I started dismembering their body afterwards you what what Katie was Terrified what are you talking about dis dismantling a body is that what you said I don't get it she knew that he liked helping people and that he had a community on Twitter that he was very fond of which she never thought it would be like this after nearly 5 days with takahiro Katie decides to go home and she cheerfully tells him I'll send you some money when I get

home okay he says okay closes the door and she practically Sprints to the train station when she Gets home she doesn't not send him the money but she also does not report him to the police before Diane there was Allison and Charlie but also Bella in the span of a single month takahiro had now four severed heads covered in kitty litter sitting in cardboard boxes in his 150t apartment in a month and with the exception of Charlie takahiro hunted his victims he knew exactly what he was looking for he would later say they need to

at least be high school or older if They're at least of high school age the police don't take it seriously more often than not missing high school girls end up at a friend's house or at a brothel which honestly should be alarming enough for the authorities to want to do something about it but I digress but takahiro was certain the police are not going to look hard for them and they need to be they need to be vulnerable mentally vulnerable was the best for Takahiro there was Allison who struggled with being bullied as a kid

who gave takahiro the money for his loft apartment Charlie Allison's best friend who struggled with feeling positive and me even more so when his best friend vanished one day then a 15-year-old girl that takahiro met on Twitter she was a freshman in high school that was putting a lot of pressure on herself to get good grades taka hero reached out to her and after bonding with her mirring her Making her feel safe he graciously offered her hey if you ever need a place to say to get away from all this pressure in school you're welcome

to stay at my loft apartment for a while then Diane a 19-year-old college student who was supposed to have her coming of age ceremony soon so every year on the second Monday of January everyone who who becomes an adult last year in Japan they participate in this huge Nationwide ceremony it's a public holiday to Celebrate adulthood often people will go out for their very first drinks on that day a lot of the young girls will wear kimonos it's a huge deal the kimonos are rented months in advance it's a big day I mean it's a

big day that every person looks forward to Diane was going to go to that ceremony but instead takah hero lured her out to his apartment Ella was a 20 six-year-old mother and the only one of the victims to be married Ella became a mom when she was 19 and she Thought it would get easier and it never did Ella already struggled a lot mentally and her daughter had a developmental disability Ella had postpartum and with all these new responsibilities and not feeling like a great mom she's her self-esteem is getting lower she feels like a

disappointment her and her husband are constantly arguing about finances they have a lot of love for each other and they're trying to make it work it's just So hard Ella was on Twitter looking for someone that she could relate to she would be Lord to takah Hero's apartment Fiona was a 17-year-old junior in high school she took a 24-hour train just to meet up with takah hero she met him on Twitter and she was so excited to have someone to talk to she paid for takah Hero's meals that day paid for all the cab rights

all their activities Fiona would sheepishly talk to him about all of her problems like how she she felt so Insecure about her appearance and he would bluntly reassure her we are not ugly by any means meeting with takahiro was actually making Fiona feel so much better near the end of their date she was going on about how you know maybe we can go to an arcade and get some dessert I think I feel really good she would end up in his bathtub Gia was a 17-year-old student that struggled with feeling good about herself her classmates

thought she was One of the most considerate ones in their entire grade like if there was a task that no other kid wanted to do Gio would do it for everyone she was led to Tak a hero's apartment takahiro would later be seen carrying a bag of her organs to a convenience store dumpster Helen was a 25-year-old who had severe social anxiety and for a while she didn't even leave her room most days but she was getting better she got a part-time job at a convenience store and All of her family said she just seems

so much more enthusiastic about life she was lured to takah Hero's apartment this is all within the span of 2 months taka hero was very quickly evolving and creating a method the process was almost the and like just to give you context of how quickly he was evolving the dismantling process that's what he called it the first the first time it took two full days he said he got it down to 2 hours that is chilling the Process was almost always the same he would meet people on Twitter then try to arrange an in-person meeting

where he would State he was going to help them exit he would meet with them at the train station they would never approach him once they spotted him him they were to call him and over the phone he was going to give them instructions on how to follow him home okay now 10 steps to the left he gave them directions on how to follow him out the station so if Anybody looked at them it looks like these two strangers are just on the phone with different people and headed in the same direction coincidentally they'll continue

this until they make it back to his Loft unit where everything is prepped and ready rope saws air freshener cat litter PP pads everything is set up for the perfect night it's almost like a ritual of sorts you usually the minute that they step into his apartment he's already so excited That he can't even he can hardly contain himself but he's like no I can't rush this process so he offers a seat to all of his victims and he talks to them sometimes it's an hour sometimes it's two sometimes it's 30 minutes he doesn't even

listen to a single thing that they're saying he just keeps topping off their whiskey glass that's mixed with whiskey and crushed up sleeping pills and tranquilizers and he just waits he sips on his tranquilizer less whiskey And this is the worst part for him this is the part where he has to pretend like he cares he he has to sit there and act like he's interested in their lives and he goes through the same problems he doesn't even remember a single one of their names just their Twitter handles he doesn't even know half their ages

he forgot he sure they mentioned it you feel like nobody understands you and you're all alone same me too mhm anxiety does suck doesn't it I Have so much anxiety as well yep yeah I agree I feel like there's a lack of love and compassion in this world everyone's just out for themselves yeah no it's most of the victims would pass out from the drugs that he slipped into their drinks and then a sick ceremony would commence sometimes he would fall asleep with them and then wake up to see them still knocked out because he

drugged them he would either essay them right then and there or he would tie them up First and then essay them he would tie them up in a way that if they woke up during the attack he could easily pull on one end and they would be forced into a standing then eventually a floating position in the middle of his apartment sometimes he would have them half suspended did while he essayed them most times he was there for the performance watching he really liked watching them convulse while they were floating and swaying from side to

side that's what he Was there for but with each victim he did start adding some small changes with Gia he cut open her blouse with scissors and during the 30 minute ceremony quote ceremony he stared at her chest for a quote considerable amount of time while she was swaying in the middle of his apartment but these ceremonies they would be over so quick and at this point he was doing one a week he was killing someone once a week and it wasn't enough the other days when he was Looking for a victim he said that

he was very busy watching violent essay illegal videos that he would find on the internet because after his first murder takahiro said he was obsessed with essay and resistance he was addicted and he wanted to experience it over and over again so he would go back to Twitter and Scout for the perfect victim and this time he was going to try something different as his latest victim was suspended he noticed his attraction was Developing so he started taking pictures of her private parts as she was still floating in his apartment and when she was cold

to the touch when he confirmed that she was dead he laid her down and engaged in necr nar's phone rang hi Naru is this Naru have you seen your sister Ivy nar's stomach dropped this was a call from the Psychiatric Group home where his sister was staying at he left work as soon as he could I mean just a few days ago at Looked like his sister Ivy was doing well the group home was an improvement for her so what do you mean have I seen my sister she's supposed to be at the group home

she's working through the grief of their mother that passed away four months ago she was finally making some progress Naru rushes over to the group home and he's confused I mean they're supposed to be monitoring her heavily and making sure that she's communicating when she's not mentally Stable so what do you mean you're calling to say that she's missing he hoped that it was just a big misunderstanding and maybe they checked the wrong room he made it to the psychiatric center and I Ivy would be sitting in her room eating her coet that's what he's

thinking she was not the room was empty the bed was made and her desk was perfectly in order everything was in its place except for One Singular note left next to her Computer that was still plugged in I'm sorry everyone my brother I'm sorry thank you for everything NAU's hand shook as he held on to the note and he used his other hand to call the police my sister is missing please it's urgent she's probably going to hurt herself but this isn't the police's top priority they've gotten eight calls like this in the past 2

months just like this one they even mentioned to Naru Girls run away all the time she'll be back Naru Didn't even know who else to talk to they're not close with the rest of their family both of their parents are gone it's just the two of them most days Naru and Ivy ivy doesn't have a boyfriend she doesn't have friends that she would go see most of the time Ivy never left the house the inside of their home was her entire world before she moved into this group home all he had was her Twitter password

Naru knew that she kept the same password for every single thing Which used to stress him out please can you be more careful Ivy you're going to get hacked but now now he's kind of grateful that she was predictable twitter.com username I love cett he enters in the password and he was in the very last post Ivy made was I want to leave but I'm afraid to do it alone if anyone else wants to leave with me please DM me I'm a 23-year-old from Tokyo it'd be ideal if you had a car in Japan it's

pretty common for one person To have multiple Twitter accounts depending on the topic there is one for a real account and there's words for these there's another one for a private account so I guess the equivalent would be like a Fina there's another account that you just follow your Idols or anime it's like a fan account and then you have a yamaka which is for deep dark and negative thoughts most people will post on there so that they can feel a sense of purpose They can find a community that they can relate to and express

how they truly feel without feeling ashamed about it users of yamaka at the core of it they just want someone to talk to and they were going missing nine young adults all between the ages of 15 to 29 have been reported missing in the Zama Japan area in the past two months all nine individuals would have a yamaka Twitter account and all nine of them would have been in contact with two specific Twitter accounts suspension Pro and shin Thai which translates to want to die NAU's hand was gripping the mouse so hard his knuckles are

white he reads his sister's last post I want to leave but I'm afraid to do it alone Naru knew that Ivy was having these thoughts but he didn't know she was using this account to talk about them he doesn't want to believe it I mean they were supposed to they had plans to get drinks together next month when she got out they were Planning to go all out for Christmas this year to that was something that they were looking forward to he promised to make her the fried shrimp that she was craving what Naru made

a post on her account this is the brother of the person who made this account the last time I was in contact with my sister was October 23rd we talk every single day without fail but she has stopped responding just a week ago she was Looking for people to leave with through this account I didn't know this until now can anybody help me he waited for any responses but in the meantime he kept investigating in Ivy's previous threads he saw a user shinai replying to Ivy his little sister saying that they could leave together there

were some private DMS where shinai wrote suspension is the best option since there is a smaller likelihood of failure Nar keeps digging and he finds more Another account that replied to her suspension Pro it looked like he discovered a secret life of his sisters like why would she not talk to him about these feelings Ivy had always been one that didn't want to burden her family but Naru thought that they were on the same page and who are these people that are reaching out to her Ivy sent a message to shinai I'm excited I mean

it's not that I want to leave but I just want someone to listen to my story to Support me maybe I just want a friend Naru was putting the pieces together his baby sister and this random guy on the internet were making a pack to leave together he quickly messages them privately begging them if you see this message do not do it this is IV's brother please stop everything pause Naru keeps refreshing the messages until a blue check mark pops up under it signifying shinai had read his message he's anxiously waiting for a response But

instead the blue check mark turns Gray which can only mean one thing the user read his message then went to his settings and turned off read receipts oh why would he do that yeah and the brother saw all of that yes and that was the signal that he needed to to to investigate this guy yes because this guy is very much alive but he cannot get in contact with his sister another tweet Popped up on a girl yumi's phone she was not familiar with the I love crickettes user but a friend of hers was tagged

in it can anyone help me find my sister I think she was last seen with this Twitter user @ shinai Yumi stared at her phone that's the guy or at least she she thinks that's a guy the guy that Yumi has been messaging the guy that she went to dinner with but she knew him as suspension Pro two different usernames but reading the Tweet Yumi was certain That they're the same person I mean just thinking about that dinner was giving her the chills Yumi went to this dinner with this guy thinking that they're meeting up

to talk about leaving together because well she wanted to leave and he was going to help her do it the whole point was you almost want someone to guide you to the other side and be there for you in your last moments and as strange or as Twisted as it sounds Yumi just wanted someone to Relate to and maybe since he claimed that he had helped so many people leave and she felt like she could trust him maybe he could just understand what she was going through to begin with but that dinner was weird he

didn't seem like he cared in any sense he was just so excited about the fact of suspending someone that that's it not only that after the dinner Yumi discovered something really bizarre there was another account trying to talk to Yumi Shinai who was encouraging her to go see suspension Pro for her quote needs suspension Pro wanted to help her successfully complete the action whereas shinai said on their Twitter account that they were looking to leave with other people but reading their messages their Cadence and everything Yumi felt like they're the same person like she knew

no she was certain they're the same person Yumi immediately messages naru Ivy's brother I've met with the same man That your sister was talking to Yumi and Naru get into touch and Yumi was determined to do whatever she can to help him and his sister and she told him the guy had really weird instructions he would give like leave a note for your family tell them not to come find you throw your phone in the ocean meet me at the train station don't say hi follow me at a distance I didn't want to do any

of that it was just everything was so weird he was really creepy he also kept asking Me how much money I make and how much money I had saved up and he kept bragging about how he's helped so many other people she was super weirded out by the conversation during dinner she told nario that she just paid for the meal and got out of there made an excuse and left but he kept messaging her please let's meet up again and Yi would Halloween night five police officers were cramped in a small hallway in front of

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items were covered in blood and they tested positive for blood in the corner of the main room against the walls were all of the boxes and coolers stacked up all of them contained severed heads legs arms bones it was like a mini Cemetery they found nine severed heads and 240 bones and then they found another box there's Another one investigators walk over to that box open it up and inside is completely empty takahiro purchased it for his 10th victim they apprehended him before he could fill another box with if it weren't for Yumi that 10th

box would have probably been filled after reaching out to Naru Yumi agreed to help the police catch takahiro she reached back out to takahiro saying she was ready they organized to meet up at a local train station Yumi went but thankfully She wasn't alone there were a lot of undercover police officers at that station they were staking it out they spot takahiro walking in and whether takahiro could feel it or not as unclear but he texted you me I can't come actually but it was too late officers already saw him they start tailing him back

to his apartment to the second floor unit 205 he led them straight to his lofted apartment but unfortunately I don't know if it was the trauma of the Incident or of knowing what takahiro did or how she had trusted him to a degree or just maybe just seeing the Dark Side of humanity Yumi would end up leaving soon after she helped take takahiro down Mr Ono the author sat down in front of takahiro and they were in the visiting room of the prison takahiro was wearing his prison issued uniform peppermint green short sleeve top with

short pants and they kind of look like Scrubs they're actually pretty comfortable That's what he tells Mr oo takahiro is sitting in prison waiting to be tried for the murder of nine people he was nicknamed the Japanese Twitter killer and his Cas is making the rounds on international news Cycles this was Mr Ono's second visit to takahiro Mr Ono after your last visit I suddenly thought of you so I drew a portrait of you he slides over a piece of paper with a drawing was extremely detailed some people don't really notice the small Features in

someone else's face but takahiro did it was very unsettling so takahiro what have you been up to this week in prison well first of all I drew that portrait of you then I played some shogi Japanese chess I did some strength training and other than that I ate some snacks there's a snack called um readymade tamago it's soft boiled egg with the light soy sauce flavoring it tastes great I think it'd go better with some sake I'm really into that right now Side note takah hero only did Jailhouse interviews with journalists and Publishers if they

paid him a gratuiti a tip if you will he would use that money to purchase snacks he would almost start every single session with Mr Ono talking about food takah hero do you buy your own Bento with the money that you have saved no I don't buy Bento only snacks if I buy a Bento with my own money the government doesn't give me a Bento that day so wouldn't that be a waste neens Would be upset about this comment since it's such a blatant iny yourface reminder that he's living off taxpayer money before the trial

takahiro also worried about covid-19 because the initial wave was happening while he was in prison but it's not that he cared about human life but he was concerned that it would affect visiting hours for prisoners and he wanted people to come visit him so that he could get free snacks he said a lot of controversial Stuff to Mr Ono while awaiting trial talking about another case another serial killer takah here ironically said I think that if if you can't raise children by yourself you should leave them with someone else I'm someone who wanted to have

children you know Mr Ono recently I've been making spicy Ramen by adding shichimi spicy peppers to my cup noodles sometimes I can't even wait for the hot water to arrive so I just start making the noodles with room temperature Water because I don't have to wait for that eating is like my stress relief there are certain foods that I consider my jackpot I like noodles sometimes they serve tempura SOA those are good Mr Ono tries to guide the conversation back to the impending trial and the crimes to see if this guy has any sort of

remorse he asks how did it feel I have to admit my heart was pounding very fast the first murder even though I wasn't exercising I was just so aroused by not The dead bodies but later after I had killed a number of people that feeling developed and I was aroused by the dead bodies and I even took pictures takahiro told the author that he was kind of shocked that he was arrested because he had no idea that Yumi was involved when he talks about his arrest he talks kind of like it's yumi's fault he doesn't

outright say it but it's almost in the settle verbage the woman who trapped me called me to the train station and when I went there she wasn't there and I was followed by the police as I returned home about 2 hours after I came back the police came in when you were arrested did you think that you had been set up by that woman Yumi no I didn't realize until later because the investigators didn't mention the girl to me at the time of the arrest takahiro closed his eyes eyes when the police came there were

bones and heads in my apartment it's very difficult to dismember a Person from the neck up I tried the face hard to break apart when I looked into it I found that the bones in the upper half of the face especially hard so I gave up on those before I even started and I was just planning on throwing all the heads away takahiro it's often shown on TV now that you covered your face with your hands when you were first arrested by the police why was that takahira explains that he instinctively covered his face because

there were a Lot of journalist present when he was apprehended but he said that he would have shown his face if one of those reporters had paid him to takahiro told Mr Ono that he had no intention of acting innocent during the trial he said I have no intention of arguing over the facts during the trial however my lawyers have done a lot of thinking it seems like they're willing to fight but judging by the current situation I think that even if we fight it out it's not Going to make a difference so I'm going

to go with Grace my lawyer is really terrible though I mean I changed lawyers before for the same reason I I asked him if he would proceed without a fight he said okay so I appointed him as my attorney but then after some time he turned around and said Mr takahiro we will fight for you so I filed a request for a dismissal but it was unsuccessful so I'm just going to have him deliver me some snacks but I think it's very unfair Do you have any concerns about the death penalty being on the table

takahiro you know I read a lot of books and I learned about the details of the execution it looks painful to be honest I don't want to be in pain I don't want to through the trial though but I also think death by suspension sounds quite painful Mr Ono was speechless this again is the same man that ruthlessly killed nine people in the same method but he's scared of the pain for himself September 30th 2020 takahiro's trial commenced he was charged with robbery forc stay homicide of eight women robbery and homicide of a man mutilation

and abandonment of all nine corpses of his victims there were a total of 18 very serious charges takahiro looked utterly not impressed the whole time during the trial he looked sluggish he would take those really um exaggerated full body stretches in his seat during the trial where you put your arms back and you Lean back and you stretch your legs out he would shake his whole body at times not because he was scared or that he was having some sort of anxiety response he was just bored he's like his legs are restless and then he

would loudly crack his joints when he got bored he would start doodling or writing stuff in his notebook which is wild considering this was not an easy trial to get through every single day several people had to leave at several points because the Details were so gruesome a lot of the times like the prison interviews with Mr Ono takahiro would just close his eyes listening like he's meditating or perhaps fantasizing nobody knows which one but the defense team for takah hero they tried to argue that takahiro was innocent in a sense because all he did

was help these girls leave which is what they wanted according to their Twitter accounts they wanted this to happen and he helped them I mean the most that he Could be guilty for really is is being a considerate helpful citizen which side note I made that a way lesser focus in today's episode because I did see some nzen questioning whether or not it was better that he targeted people that already expressed feelings of wanting to leave which I think is absolutely insane and I didn't even want that to be a thing I mean this guy

is a serial killer he's a sadistic serial killer and he should be presented as one and it should Not be presented from the victim stand points of them having certain thoughts or posting about it online that's not why they died they died because he's a sadistic zero killer but during the trial it was discussed that takahiro had five accounts on Twitter they were all focused on negative thoughts and emotions he would always pose as someone that either wanted to help others leave where he positioned himself like this compassionate character who knew how Disgusting the world

was and he just wanted to be almost like a counselor on their way to leave or he would pose as someone who was going through the same exact process and wanted to leave with someone this monster was constantly searching for a new victim on Twitter at one point he was talking to 37 different Twitter accounts he would be dming people while he was in the process of dismembering a previous victim all the while he was searching up on his phone Why is assisted leaving illegal consensual homicide how long does one serve for murder how many

people do you have to kill to get the death penalty in Japan so clearly he wasn't trying to help anyone but himself takahiro himself did not like the consensual homicide defense but not for the same reasons as us he just thought the trial was getting way too long and things would just be faster if his attorneys just were like yeah okay fine he did it he thought that The evidence was way too much and this was pointless and it was a waste of his time he was straight up asked what kind of women he looked

for on Twitter and he said women who were depressed I mean it's easier to seduce women who are troubled and make them do my bidding takahiro would take the stand and answer questions that the prosecutors so the other side would ask and when his own defense attorneys would ask him questions which defense attorneys will Usually ask questions for the jury to hear a very specific answer because it helps their client so any question a defense attorney typically asks the defendant is going to be favorable for the defendant but takahiro would just ignore his attorneys they

would ask him do you hear me I hear your question but I don't intend to answer any of your questions so you're not going to answer any of them I'll answer you because this is a waste of time but I don't want Trouble for my relatives this is a very long trial I asked my defense attorneys to proceed with the trial quickly without contesting and they said they understood so I appointed them but suddenly they said they wanted to fight this is not what we discussed to be honest I still hold a grudge when the

defense attorneys takahiro's attorneys tried to ask another question takahiro turned to him and bluntly stated I'm sorry but I don't trust you so I will Remain silent but when the prosecutor the other side asked him after you strangled the victims why did you decide to suspend them after they stopped moving at the time I was considering different things and what would happen if I if I was caught if I were to dump the Cor ores in the mountains I wanted to look like they suspended themselves in the vicinity of the mountains where the body would

be discovered I wanted it to look like they were suspended instead Of strangled He also mentioned that with some of his victims he would wrap a towel around their necks before suspending them to make it more confusing for investigators for what their cause of death was he continued to be honest your honor I thought murder was okay as long as I wasn't caught wow this guy is on another planet the prosecutors continued why were you researching cannibalism in Japan at the Time because I wanted to find out if there were any other similar cases what

kinds of methods they used were they caught why were they caught and to gain knowledge about body destruction and Disposal when dismembering bodies did you consume human meat no I did not at one point in the trial takahiro straight up tells the judge a situation where someone knows they're going to be R worded such as a worker which is wild that's like I don't even know how to Unpack that statement in and of itself but he continues in a situation where they know they're going to be R worded it's less exciting than to suddenly attack

a normal woman who doesn't know that she's going to be R worded the judge tries to clarify as far as you remember takahiro is that what you were motivated by is that what you were aroused by suddenly touching a woman's chest when she was in a normal state or licking a fainting woman's Chest to be honest yes the judge interrupts I don't think a typical rward situation would cause fainting so why did you make your victims faint because I could foresee that they would scream or become violent do you have any interest in relations with

a woman who does not resist or is it just resisting um just resisting I felt pleasure in relations with a woman who was unconscious or tied up I was not Bound by appearances or age to a certain degree takahiro does answer a question from his own attorney and that was if you hadn't been arrested what kind of life would you have had now I would imagine that most defendants would say something along the lines of I would have lived in guilt and likely turned myself in I would have stopped I would have found religion I

don't know I would have stopped because it was becoming too much for me to handle mentally and I Realized that I was a deplorable human being but takahiro closes his eyes and responds I plan to take the bodies out of my room bury them in a rental room perhaps or in the mountains terminate the lease for the loft apartment move out move into the room of another woman that I found on Twitter reset and do it all over again do the killings again yeah he also stated you know if I had just killed one person

I might still have a future I Could have become a monk offered my prayers reflected on my actions but now that I've killed nine people well I don't think I can do that anymore right side note takahiro does try to defend himself to a degree during the trial he tries to do mental gymnastics with everyone trying to get them to believe that it's actually the judge and the government's fault that he killed people prior to this takahiro was working as a scout and like really quick we've Already touched on this quite a bit in the

hostess bar case of Yuka takaoka but but a scout is typically a guy that roams the streets and tries to find women that he thinks would be interested in working at hostess bars or sometimes SE work adjacent cafes if they're interested he's going to bring them to whatever Cafe he works with and if they like her they're going to have her start working there and takahiro gets paid a finder fee which makes it sound like a Mutually beneficial relationship to a degree he gets her a job he gets paid but at the same time Scouts

will Gaslight trick lie to girls about what type of job they're going to work a big thing is many Scouts will pretend to date a girl that he meets on the street and then convinces her babe please go work at this Hostess bar for us for our future he keeps them working and then they'll ask the club for more commission off her earnings if she does well they Will find the girls vulnerabilities and insecurities and basically exploit them saying things like don't you want to work harder for me for us for our future takahiro was

a shady Scout he wasn't a very good scout but he was a shady one allegedly he told a fellow Scout that he preferred miners because they were unaccustomed to life AKA they were easier to manipulate takahiro was arrested for scouting and he was on probation when he started Killing he said he only killed he just wanted to rward woman but he had to kill them because if he got caught for R wording since he's already on probation he would go to jail so the only reason he killed them was technically the government's fault cuz if

he hadn't been on probation he wouldn't have killed them he would have just awarded them he said getting caught at that time was a big deal if I hadn't been caught I Think I would have continued to be a scout without committing any crimes or anything which I thought being a scout to put it simply it was a job where you can just lie on the couch and talk to girls it's fun it's lucrative anyway I couldn't go back to working as a scout because I was on probation and I didn't feel like working a

real job so I thought theft but then I couldn't think of a way to steal money the only thing I could think of was to use a woman for Money so I found them on social media then I met Allison and then I wanted to rward her found out she had money I killed her he also blamed Twitter stating that it was very easy to approach vulnerable people on Twitter to deceive them and that's why he did what what he did takahiro stated that his primary motive was money but um nobody believes that when asked

about the crime itself takahiro stated my heart was pounding from a guilty conscious but I Felt a thrill of doing something wrong it felt good to have intimate relations with this type of thrill the feeling of the r word turned me on when asked if takahiro felt guilty for what he did he told Mr Ono very bluntly to be honest I don't have feelings for the victims in other cases I've seen people apologize to the victims and their families but in my case I don't feel anything for the families well maybe I feel a little

bit for the victims Allison was my first Victim we had spent quite a bit of time together so I kind of maybe feel a little bad there Ella because she has a kid so I feel bad about putting her child who still has a future ahead of her in a situation where she doesn't have a firm maternal Foundation Fiona because I honestly could have just used her for her money a bit longer so there really was no reason why I killed her so soon I don't know why I did that but honestly the other ones

nothing as for Ivy the one that he essayed after after her death and engaged in necrophilia with he said he felt bad and he regretted killing ivy only because it led to his arrest only because Ivy's brother led to his arrest so he regrets killing her because it got him apprehended but for the others nothing he said he doesn't really know them he doesn't even know their names he found out during the trial he only knew their Twitter accounts so how could he feel Regret for killing them as for the death of Charlie takahiro said

he actually felt proud that he was able to over power Charlie and kill him his only male victim but takahiro's Mom would State my son is too timid to even kill an insect which side note takahiro mentions he hates bugs cuz when he was um going through the dismantling phase he briefly thought about maybe he could get rid of the bodies by either buying like 700 lers of acid to dissolve the bodies but He thought that could actually dissolve the tub itself so he decided against it then he thought maybe he could purchase maggots to

eat the bodies but but he just really hated bugs he was like I'm so grossed out by bugs I don't want them in the apartment meanwhile the boxes of bones are fine but his mom said he's too timid to even hurt a bug perhaps it's because he hates them it's not because he's gentle but to takah Hero's mom he was her everything I mean even before he Was born takahiro's mom had a vision of what her firstborn son would be she spent hours pouring over books on Chinese characters in their meetings and she decided on

takahiro which means Prosperity nobility and vastness it's supposed to symbolize wide Prosperity which there's really nothing Noble or prosperous about takahiro by most accounts he had a somewhat normal comfortable childhood his version of rebelling against his parents was to go To public school rather than private school like his parents wanted but if his parents weren't babying him enough or giving him enough attention takah hero would run away pretend like he had thoughts of self- exiting which he never did he would straight up say I did it because it made my parents be nicer to me

and give me more allowance sometimes he would go as far to leave his laptop open where he was joining exiting communities so that his Parents would see but he had no intention of leaving sometimes he would go to sleep with a rope next to him or leave his final notes out in the open saying goodbye but he again had no intention he said that he did it so that they'd be nicer to him and baby him so he's manipulating everyone around him he knows how to get everybody's emotion yeah I think that's where he get

the idea from and then he just uses that everywh Yeah and it's it's crazy because his parents actually never visited him in jail they cut off all contact but they really did baby him I think that maybe they realized they they played a big role in how he became the way he was to a degree and you know how the shaming culture in Japan is very strong like family names yeah there's no way they could stick by him yeah something like this but I do think that they were probably Not the best parents even the

way that she would describe her son it it was just giving very babying the son to the point where he would do anything to get what he wanted so he had nobody in his life while he's going through this trial and takahiro even asked Mr Ono to publish an article to get him a wife to tell the world that takahiro the Twitter killer was looking for a partner in marriage he said if you're already going through the trouble of publishing an Article I was hoping to use the opportunity to find someone nice are you thinking

about getting married in prison because of what can happen if you're sentenced to death that's right when you're sentenced to death you won't be able to have any visitors other than family if that's the case I thought it'd be better to be married to someone because then she'll be considered family and she can come visit me and bring me stuff so blatantly too yeah she's like Yes I'm going to use her I need her to bring me stuff duh what else would she be around for in the final statement in court takahira was asked if

he had anything else to say any final thoughts he stated I have nothing more to say December 15th 2020 the judge stated the defendant is sentenced to death did you hear me yes I heard you this was the reaction on court yeah wow the judge then read out the sentencing and because there were so many victims Involved it took one and a half hours to read the full sentence out loud takahiro was itching in his seat ready to leave he did not seem phased at all the biggest concern takahiro had like I said was being

lonely in prison that's it now it is interesting that capital punishment in Japan is carried out via suspension some nzen stated that this is poetic justice that he will endure the same fate that he forced his victims to but others are concerned that perhaps Takahiro might enjoy it in a sense considering his fascination with it plus a lot of nens point out there's an interesting phenomenon called rigor erectus due to the method of putting pressure on parts of the brain and spinal cord many men who are exposed by hanging develop a physiological reaction in their

private parts neens Wonder as a man with a sadist obsession with this fixation would it be so shocking to to believe that he might like the way he Goes out the victim's family members gave their final impact statements Allison's brother stated my sister never wanted to leave I could see that she was trying her hardest and I cannot forgive the fact that the perpetrator who is so unfaced is the same type of human as all of us it is my greatest hope that he will be gone from this world as soon as possible Diane's mother

stated the day I was finally reunited with my daughter's remains after she went missing was on Her birthday she was completely unrecognizable and instead of wishing her a happy birthday I had to tell her that I finally found her and I had searched for her for a very long time I can imagine how much pain she must have been in Bella's parents stated if our daughter was alive today she'd be in her first year of college but to us our daughter is still a freshman in high school no matter how much we want to see

her grow up time remains stuck in that Day our daughter's life cannot be compensated with the perpetrator's life even if he has senten to death we want him to suffer until the very last end that is our wish en's parents stated at least if we had her whole body in one piece we could have at least put her in her coming of age kimono for the celebration but we can't it is important to note whatever the victims were going through each one of them fought back every single one of them Bella even Texted takahiro last

minute after thinking things over I think I'm going to go on living he ignored her and pressured her into his apartment under the pretense of just being friends where he murdered her each one of them had defensive wounds and they fought for their lives and now all that's left of this case is to wait for the execution date and unit 205 takahiro's House of Bones has a new tenant the new tenant stated the rent was low location is good So why not and that is the case of the Twitter killer yeah this is really really

bad like the speed the pacing the the how quickly it all evolved Twitter was actually forced to implement a lot of changes because of this case that's when they had the hard launch of um not not enticing not encouraging leaving those types of verbage became a lot more sensitive but what are your thoughts and please stay safe and I will see you guys on Sunday for the next episode [Music] bye